March 10, 2010
March 04, 2010
The Blue Green Alliance, Communications Workers of America, Sierra Club, and Progressive States Network have released a report entitled "Networking the Green Economy: How Broadband and Related Technologies Can Build a Green Economic Future."
March 01, 2010
The Blue Green Alliance sent a letter to the Senate today urging a new jobs bill that shapes and grows the economy while benefiting workers and the environment. Provisions to save and create jobs must include proper investments and incentives in clean energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, and state fiscal relief.
February 01, 2010
The Blue Green Alliance sent a letter to the United States Senate today urging that comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation be put at the top of the agenda in coming weeks.
January 21, 2010
The Sierra Club joined the Rainforest Action Network and the Environmental Investigation Agency in a letter to Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke to support investigating potential illegal logging practices in Indonesia.
October 29, 2009
Dave Johnson, the organizing director for LIUNA's Eastern Region, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works regarding the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act.
September 02, 2009
Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers, penned this op-ed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette explaining how the green revolution could revive the U.S. and world economy.
June 30, 2009
Members of LIUNA - the Laborers International Union of North America - weatherized the Seattle home of a low-income woman today for free. It was the first home weatherized in the Northwest as part of LIUNA's breakthrough program to train hundreds of local workers to do skilled weatherization work.